id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2998 Schadenfreude - Wikipedia .html text/html 4081 591 66 During the seventeenth century, Robert Burton wrote in his work The Anatomy of Melancholy, "Out of these two [the concupiscible and irascible powers] arise those mixed affections and passions of anger, which is a desire of revenge; hatred, which is inveterate anger; zeal, which is offended with him who hurts that he loves; and ἐπιχαιρεκακία, a compound affection of joy and hate, when we rejoice at other men's mischief, and are grieved at their prosperity; pride, self-love, emulation, envy, shame, &c., of which elsewhere."[37] A 2011 study by Cikara and colleagues using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) examined schadenfreude among Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees fans, and found that fans showed increased activation in brain areas correlated with self-reported pleasure (ventral striatum) when observing the rival team experience a negative outcome (e.g., a strikeout).[45] By contrast, fans exhibited increased activation in the anterior cingulate and insula when viewing their own team experience a negative outcome. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2998.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2998.txt